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tv   FOX 45 News at 530  FOX  July 27, 2012 5:30pm-6:00pm EDT

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tonight...a... federal agent ...is saying ... this... could... have been... the first kidnapping... for... the man... who... abducted... the... mother of... cal ripken junior. police are still searching for the man. crime and justice reporter joy lepola gets to the bottom of what makes this guy so different. former f-b-i agent.... doctor tyrone powers.... says the profile of ripken's kidnapper leads him to believe...átheá guy isn't that sophisticated. here's another look at the man. take a good look if you haven't seen this... police released this picture a little over 24 hours ago. sources tell me that detectives have been flooded with calls all day. other people say this picture was actually taken at a walmart near vi ripken's house. it was taken the night of her abduction. during our interview this afternoon here at our fox studios powers told me that.... it is baffling why the kidnapper brought ripken back to the
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neighborhood where he had abducted her 24 hours earlier. 22:55 there are a lot of things in here that doesn't fit the normal kidnapping or even the normal actions of an individual who is not very sophisticated at kidnapping he's doing somethings differently :06 butt bite23:31 they may let them go but they don't necessarily bring them back to the vicinity of where they took them. :35 a stranger passing by on his way home from work actually found ripken wedged in her car between the seats. she was waving a white sweater out the driver side window. there were police officer no more than 20 yards away. joy lepola fox 45 news at 5:30. be... the... first to... know... about breaking news... on the ripken abduction case ... by... signing up... for... fox45's... "news on the go."...//text... w-b-f-f... to... 45-203... to ssgn up... for text alerts .../or ... go to ...fox baltimore dot com ... and... click on... "mobile"... on... the... upper ...right hand corner ... of... the screen.../. screen.../.you...
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can... also download ...the fox45 app... on... your smartphone...//. go... to... your ...app store.../ and... enter "w-b-f-f"... to... download it. maryland transit police needs your helping in finding the man who committed armed robbery aboard an m-t-a bus. on june 6 police say this man entered the 54 bus line near liberty road south of bennett parkway. officials say he had a knife and brass knuckles and attempted to rob someone of their cell phone. anyone with information should call m-t-a police. a seven year old child with special needs, is distraught tonight after his 8-thousand dollar therapeutic bike is stolen. kathleen cairns has more on why the bike is essential to the child's health. it's a tricycle specially designed for a child with prader-willi syndrome. it's caused by a missing gene... and the tricycle is designed to help the child develope muscle tone... the problem is... the bike was stolen from a little boy in hagerstown.... ethan paugh can throw a football...but has trouble
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catching... and is very proud he can spell his last name...nats: "p-a-u-g-h awesome! good job." part of his illness means he has little muscle tone.. and can gain weight quickly. doctors put him on a 1500 calorie a day diet, but even so - at age 7 ethan weighs 190 pounds. but thanks to a special non profit he was given special mobility tricycle. his grandmother will never forget the day it was delivered. "when i first saw the bike, i had tears in my eyes.""happy." but june 30th the bike..disappeared. "stolen." that's right - stolen from the lawn of a church. "this was the one bike. this was ethan's bike. this was ethan's mobility. this was ethan's goodsend." "sad.""we told ethan, don't worry. we'll find your bike before the night's over. and that didn't appen." now he has to walk the path he used to ride... ethan had lost three pounds in the ten days he had the bike,
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without it...he's lost a little bit of himself. tonight hagerstown police tell us they have had no significant leads in the case... they just hope who ever took it... will return it... kc fox 45 news at five thirty the... mayor of baltimore... is.. accused of... making... the city... a... "safe haven"... for... illegals.../. mayor... rawlings-blake... says... illegal... immigrants ... are crucial... to her goal ... of... adding... 10-- thousand... new families... to baltimore's population... over... the... next decade..../ in... march, ... she ...signed an executive order.../ barring police... and other city employees ... from... asking about... citizenship... status..../ delegate... pat mcdonough ... áblastsá... the policy... which ...he says ...will make baltimore... a... "magnet".. for illegals. "iq: this is her policy, she's not joking around... oq: why isnt she advocating for them." them." 3 the mayor... declined to 3
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comment..../ some maryland lawmakersmay have to postpone their vacations.governor o'malley has formally announced plansfor a special session nextmonth...to consider a gambling bill.john rydell has more fromthe state house on what lawmakers will be debating... debaaing... (rydell) "in less than two weeks, lawmakers will return to the state house fore the third time this year, this time, it's to debate the bill to expand gambling, an issue that still sharply divides lawmakers.""on august 9th, we session to resolve this issue now."governor o'malley outlines his goals...for the next special session. his bill woold expand gambling to "live" table games like black- jack... and poker.but...it also calls forbuilding another casino...at the national harbor... in prince george's county. (governor) "this allows us to create jobs and it will allow us to realize almost immediately $100 million in revenue for our public schools."the &pbill...also has support from mayor stephanie rawlings-blake. (mayor) "and
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my hope is with the expanded gaming, we'll have an opporttnitynot only to have more revenue but also more jobs."but some lawmakers wonder why so much attention...is being focused...on just one location. (reilly) "if we're going to open the door to a sixth location, should it be in harford county, should it be in frederick county?" (rydell) "a similar gambling bill passed the state senate earlier this year but it never came up for a final vote here in the house. house speaker michael busch tells me he does believe he has the 71 votes necessary to get it passed in special session.at the state house, john rydell, fox 45 news at 5:30." more... than.. .a... dozen businesses... and apartments... could... be... without power... for weeks, .../ while... crews... repair a sinkhole.../ that... led... to... a broken ... gas line.../ in... east baltimore. baltimore. this... the scene... wednesday.../ when ... the city... was forced to close... 4 blocks... from east monument... to... milton street .../the sinkhole... was... caused by.. .a... storm drain... culvert.../ that... acted like... a washing machine... under... the road,.../ swirling... tons of water... and trash..../ still... no word ...on when... the road... will reopen... /
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at least 15 businesses and second-story monument street could weeks how are the roads looking tonig? tonight?carrie peirce has our traffic edge report. report. mapmdot- 695 wilkensfiber- 895map many... high-schoolers ...are putting ápastaá ...to the test. more than a hundred high school students will compete in this years áspaghetti bridge contest.á nats of bridges falling students will use uncooked spaghetti and
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glue to construct bridges that will be tested in the contest. more weight will be added to each structure until the past bridge finally breaks. and you better believe the task is just as hard as it sounds. "it was very hard so out bridge is sort of complicated so a lot of breaking we had a lot of breakage in the spaghetti cause it just breaks like that and then the glue was really hard to work with cause it was like you have two different kinds of epoxy you had to mix them together." the contest is part of a summer course &pcreated by johns hopkins school of engineering... to teach students critical thinking and problem solving skills. criticism over rescuer's response to the mass shooting in colorado. colorado.the fire department policy that may have prevented crews from reaching victims faster. 3 3 a shark fed up with film crews.... what these divers did to get their camera back.... and the costly damage. a bizarre request from conrad murray, the doctor convicted in michael jackson's
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death...... who he's asking to visit him in jail...and why ... 3 --adblib weather tz-- ♪
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he took me to the hospital ... " nats: "we have one we cannot move in theater 9 get us an ambulance to come in here as soon as they are available ... " 3 fire... rescue protocol says... the scene... must be declared safe.. / before crews... enter... an active crime scene...//. that... policy... was criticized... after this... apartment shooting,... 2--years ago.../ where... a... man... lie bleeding... for... more than... 20 minutes... before... being transported....// a... fake doctor... accused of illegally ... giving... butt injections... is... now facing... additional charge. charges. o'neal... morris... is already... facing charges ... for... allegedly ...pumping up ...women... with... "fix-a-flat".../ , super glue,... bathroom caulk..../ even cement..../// one... woman ... died.../ . and... morris... has been charged ... with... manslaughter..../ this... comes ...just weeks after... another fake doc.. kimberly smedley.. was... sentenced in baltimore... to... 3 years... in... prison... on... similar charges... / after... injecting... exotic dancers... with... industrial... grade silicone. 3 there's more drama for the
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jackson family tonightand new details surface about heartbreak in hollywood. candace dold has the latest on the emotional ordeals for today's lowdown. lowdown. we begin by talking about the jackson family.katherine jackson, the mother of the late king of pop, has received a very interesting invitation. conrad murray... the doctor convicted in michael jackson's death... is inviting the late pop star's mother... to visit him in jail.the invitation was extended via a statement to c-n-n. murray says since she's the mother of quote - "a very dear departed friend"... he wants to put her at peace... and is offering to answer any questions she may have.a representative for jackson says it's doubtful she will accept the offer. there are new details about the split of two of hollywoods hottest actors from the twilight series. robert pattinson has moved out of the home he shared with kristen stewart.
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this comes after kristen apologized for for an "indiscretion" with the director of her latest film, "snow white and the huntsman." in a statement , she alled pattinson the person she "loves and respects the most." a source tells people pattinson is "heartbroken and angry." from movies to music... one of the most popular songs of the summer is call me maybe by carley rae jepsen.we've heard just about everybodys version... even cookie monster.now some olympic athletes have their cover listen in...and look for baltimore's own michael phelps. nats: i threw a wish in the well... don't ask me i'll never tell that is the 2012 usa olympic swimming team. apparently they made the video to blow off a little steam. that video is on youtube and it has hundreds of thousands
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of views.i'm candace dold and that's your lowdown. 3 3 i feel like it's an attempt to embarrass me or to intimidate me me a mayor outraged over a parking ticket..... creates his own parking place.... how he defends the abuse of power....and the reason its causing tension with police. 3 --adblib weather tz-- [ male announcer ] now at your neighborhood subway:
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ticket... on your windshield... can... put a damper ... on... your day. .../ most... of... us ... can't... do much ...about it. but when you're the mayor, you can take matters into your own hands. hhnds.after getting a 20- dollar parking ticket, the mayor of logansport, indiana, decided to create his own parking place!he annexed two parking spots for himself, which used to be reserved for
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police cars.the mayor believes the 20-dollar fine boils down to tension between himself and the ticketing officer. the officer was chief of police until he was demoted when franklin took office. there's some sour grapes there, and i feel like it's an attempt to embarrass me or to intimidate me, and i'm not going to buy into it. i can't be intimidated. intimidated.mayor franklin says police still have eight parking places. follow the weather using our powerful
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hey everyone, welcome to
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sports unlimited.i'm morgan adsit live at owings mills with the ravens..it's day two of camp...still no bryant mckinnie.he has yet to report because of personal issues. michael oher is the team's starting left tackle..haloti ngata here, but not practicing after tweaking his hamstring during a conditioning test.but there's some good news... rookie o-lineman kelechi osmele is on the field... after missing time with back spasms. meanwhile the 90 guys that are on the ravens camp roster... are all fighting for a spot.in a few weeks, the ravens cut that number to 75.then eventually to 53..the first to go are the undrafted rookie free agents.long shots that didn't get drafted...and usually just get one or two chances to make their n-f-l dreams come true..every camp one guy gets through.... receiver and special teams player laquan williams got it last year.but it's even more rare for those players to get a second contract let alone start..linebacker jameel mcclain a perfect example. undrafted out of syracuse... worked his way up to ravens
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starter...and began his 5th season with a new 3-year deal worthh10-point-5 million. it's quarterback joe flacco's 5th training camp start...but this one's different.flacco has double duty... balancing a full time job and being a new dad.joe and his wifey welcomed their first... a baby boy named stephen last month..while flacco's in control and hands on... on a football field... he's got the backup role at home. 3 more from camp... and the o's welcome the a's.
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tonight on sports unlimited. i'm ma live in owings mills. --toss to emily-- emily-- 3 3 3
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never turn your back on a shark...not necessarily because it'll eat you, but it might steal your gear. take... a... look at this../ .a... team of divers... was... shooting a film... in... the bahamas... called... "shark obsession".../ when... a thief... swiped their gear.../ and... took off.../. the... divers... are familiar... with... this shark.../ her... name... is emma.../ and... she's... 14-feet long...//. the... gear... was worth ...about... 15--bucks... and... it weighed about ...30 pounds,.../ the... snack... didn't appeal to her...// so... emma... dropped it.../ and... the... divemaster ... was... able to... recover it. 3 that's all for fox45 news at 5:30."family feud" is next. next.and we'll be back tonight for fox45 news at ten -- and the late edition at
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